The recipes for the preparation of Italian pasta exist as many as its varieties. In today's article, we'll look at the recipes for pasta with bacon: from the classic carbonara to modern variations.
Recipe for Carbonara paste with bacon
As with any traditional dish, there are a huge number of recipes for cooking carbonara, and each of them, of course, is considered original. We settled on the most common version with cream and egg.
Ingredients:
- spaghetti - 400 g;
- olive oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- pancetta - 200 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- eggs - 3 pcs. + 1 yolk;
- cream - 100 ml;
- grated Parmesan - 50 g;
- parsley.
Preparation
Spaghetti is boiled in a saucepan of boiling salted water. While the pasta is brewed, we put a frying pan on the fire and fry it on pancetta for about 2-3 minutes or until golden brown. Then add crushed garlic and fry it for 30 seconds.
Whisk the eggs and cream with a fork with a pinch of salt. We add grated cheese to the egg-milk mixture.
Drain the water from the finished paste and add to it a mixture of eggs, cream and cheese. Quickly, everything is mixed, put pancetta, crushed greenery and mix again. Pasta with bacon and cream is ready! On top of top of the spaghetti, put the raw yolk, but if this option is not acceptable for you - boil the poached egg and decorate the dish to them.
A recipe for pasta with bacon and mushrooms
Pasta casseroles are the property of American cuisine. It is in America that it is customary to bake pasta with an abundance of cream under a golden cheese crust. This dish just can not be left without attention.
Ingredients:
- paste horns - 300 g;
- green peas - half a century;
- olive oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- bacon - 200 g;
- onions - 1 pc .;
- thyme (leaves) - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- champignons - 200 g;
- flour - 1/3 of a century;
- cream - 2 items;
- grated hard cheese - 1 tbsp.
Preparation
Oven warm up to 180 degrees. Paste the pasta until ready and mix with green peas.
On olive oil fry sliced onion and bacon for 5 minutes. To the contents of the frying pan add the crushed garlic and thyme leaves. Mushrooms cut into plates and put them to onions and bacon. We continue cooking for 3 more minutes, add flour, wait another minute, and pour the contents of the frying pan with cream. As a result, after a couple of minutes of boiling, a thick creamy sauce should appear in the pan. Pour into the sauce boiled pasta, add grated cheese and carefully mix everything. We shift the "horns" in the sauce into a baking dish, sprinkle the remaining cheese and send it to the oven for 30 minutes. Pasta with cheese and bacon should be covered with a delicious golden crust.
How to cook pasta with bacon and tomatoes?
Tomato sauce is an immortal classic of Italian cuisine. We decided to make the simplest of them on the basis of the ready-made tomato sauce. If you prefer to prepare the sauce yourself from start to finish, then first prune the fresh tomatoes with the addition of salt and sugar until a homogeneous thick sauce.
Ingredients:
- olive oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- bacon - 200 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- white dry wine - 125 ml;
- paste - 350 g;
- tomato sauce - 250 ml;
- Ricotta cheese - 100 g;
- parsley.
Preparation
In the frying pan, warm up the olive oil and fry the bacon with garlic for 3 minutes. Fans of the sharp can add a little red pepper. Fill the bacon with wine and leave the liquid evaporated for 2 minutes. Now you can add tomato sauce, 125 ml of water to the pan, leave the sauce to simmer for about 10-15 minutes.
In the meantime, boil the paste according to the directions on the package. Mix the prepared pasta with tomato sauce and sprinkle the dish with parsley. On top we put ricotta slices.